Spike Lee is no stranger to getting all up in Quentin Tarantino's business. He's berated Tarantino before for his use of the word 'n****r' in Jackie Brown, asking the question "What does he want to be made - an honorary black man?" as though skin colour is some kind of gentleman's club.

Tarantino has proved he's not afraid to take risks, or push the boundaries when demonstrating his artistry. In Django Unchained, Tarantino has undeniable created a vehicle to indulge in wild fantasy to such an excess, that he may need a stint in rehab to recover.

While comparisons to The Avengers and a host of other Christmas-related adventures are obvious, where Rise of the Guardians really finds its kindred spirit is, bizarrely, The Bourne Identity.

Sally Potter was 13 years old when the Cuban Missile Crisis was going on in 1962. Apparently it made a deep impression on the teenager growing up in England. Fifty years later, she used as a backdrop of her new film the threat of a nuclear war between the US and USSR through the eyes of two BFFs, the title characters of Ginger & Rosa, which played the New York Film Festival earlier this week.

Seth MacFarlane, the mastermind behind Family Guy and American Dad ventures out from animated television into live action with his directorial debut feature film Ted.

Since 1732, when Benjamin Franklin first published Poor Richard's Almanac, America has gradually become obsessed with self-help literature as a way to find the next quick fix to achieving that elusive "American dream".

I have recently watched the Klezmatics: On Holy Ground documentary once again with joy and although I generally do not write on music and film, I was so moved by it I wanted to write a blog piece.

Films out this week (TRAILERS) The Descendants - 115 mins George Clooney has already started collecting the gongs for his turn as Matt King, a bus...

The Iron Lady is out. And it is apparently (I have yet to see it), hailing Margaret Thatcher as a feminist icon through its focus on gender and class. Yet she could not have been more removed from the aims, passions and identity of women's solidarity.

Screenwriter Steven Zaillian called it a no-brainer, and I'm sure this was so for American studio execs, keen to cash in on the iconic, already fabled...

Meryl Streep has already picked up her first gong - from the New York Critics Circle - for her work as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady. The fil...